Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.

No other God have I but thee, born in a manger, died on a tree.

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.

Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.

When one is possessed with doubt, that though he call upon the Lord he cannot be heard, and that God has turned him heart from him, and is angry ... he must arm himself with God's Word, promising to hear him.

Christ took our sins and the sins of the whole world as well as the Father's wrath on his shoulders, and he has drowned them both in himself so that we are thereby reconciled to God and become completely righteous.